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Future Worlds’ Fair: Prototyping Tomorrow in the Dust

August 15, 2025 By Andie Grace

If a Future Worlds’ Fair was held tomorrow, wouldn’t it look a lot like Black Rock City? The 2025 Burning Man theme is Tomorrow Today, a reimagined future conjured in ...Read More

Community During COVID, Leaving No Trace

So, You Want to Visit the Playa This Summer … Part 4: Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe + Gerlach News

August 17, 2021 By Burning Man Project

A series about visiting the Black Rock Desert in the summer of 2021, with updates from the Bureau of Land ...Read More

Leaving No Trace

Year Two Update: Progress On Burning Man Project’s Sustainability Roadmap

July 22, 2021 By Burning Man Project

Two years ago this week, Burning Man Project shared a 10-year Environmental Sustainability Roadmap. Our goals are to sustainably manage waste, ...Read More

Tales from the Playa

Tales From the Playa: Holly and Her Dusty Pranksters, Chapter 1

July 6, 2021 By Matt Douglass

This is Chapter 1 of a six-part story that was originally published on Medium in loving memory of a Dilated ...Read More

Leaving No Trace, Serious Stuff

So, You Want to Visit the Playa This Summer… Part 3: Responsible Recreation, LNT, and Your Safety

June 18, 2021 By Marnee Benson

A series about visiting the Black Rock Desert in the summer of 2021, with updates from the Bureau of Land ...Read More

Global News, Leaving No Trace, Serious Stuff

So, You Want to Visit the Playa This Summer… Part 2: Updates from BLM

June 16, 2021 By Marnee Benson

A series about visiting the Black Rock Desert in the summer of 2021, with updates from the Bureau of Land ...Read More

Building BRC, Tales from the Playa

Stories From the City: Feed the Artists – Maybe We’ve Fed YOU

May 6, 2021 By Daniel Escalzo

In the spring of 2007, “Kernal Angus” sat in a restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia, with his friend and well-known Black ...Read More

Tales from the Playa

Stories From the City: Religious As F*ck — Sharing Sacred Rituals on the Playa

April 13, 2021 By Annie Dunlop and Alex Leach

“Most people think it’s a joke when they first meet us,” Annie Dunlop says when describing our theme camp Religious ...Read More

Tales from the Playa

Stories From the City: The Magical Origin Story of Wonder Camp

March 16, 2021 By Victor Stevens

Tom “Driver” Bates’ first Burn was 2006, and like a lot of first-time Burners, on the long drive home, he ...Read More

BRC Art, Building BRC, Community During COVID, The Ten Principles

Arthur Mamou-Mani’s Catharsis: How VR Is Paving the Way for Radical Inclusion and Sustainability

March 12, 2021 By Brinkley

The computer screen flickered momentarily as a man with a headset and a beaming smile appeared, offering a warm “Hellooo!” ...Read More